2025 Compare Cities Education:
Sugar Grove, IL vs Portage, IN

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Highlights
- Portage spends 27.4% less per student than Sugar Grove.
- The Student Teacher Ratio is 7.8% higher in Portage than in Sugar Grove. (lower means fewer students in each classroom).
- Portage had 3.5% fewer residents who had graduated High School compared to Sugar Grove
 Sugar Grove, ILPortage, INUnited States
 Expend. per Student  Unlock$12,763$15,905
 Educ. Expend. per Student$15,271  Unlock$13,142
 Instr. Expend. per Student  Unlock$5,384$7,999
 Pupil/Teacher Ratio14.42  Unlock16.23
 Students per Librarian  Unlock5254573
 Students per Counselor659  Unlock530
 Grade School Educ.  Unlock3.3%4.8%
 Some High School Educ.2.9%  Unlock6.3%
 High School Educ.  Unlock90.7%88.9%
 Some College Educ.21.0%  Unlock20.0%
 2 yr College Grad.  Unlock8.8%8.7%
 4 yr College Grad.41.3%  Unlock33.7%
 Masters Grad.  Unlock3.8%9.3%
 Professional Degree1.0%  Unlock2.2%
 Doctorate Degree  Unlock0.2%1.5%
Reviews for Sugar Grove    1 Reviews

Over 17 years ago

Sugar Grove, located apprimately 50 miles west of Downtown Chicago is a wonderful place to live and raise a family. People are friendly, houses, neighborhoods and  More

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Reviews for Portage    2 Reviews

Just a normal, big town in the Midwest. Decent public schools, sure, pretty safe, indeed and not expensive (yet) to live. On the one hand many normal-sized (mostly old)  More

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Over 19 years ago

Boring but good  More

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